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07 Dec 2005, 09:31 PM
Opaque

I could kill this game right now.

I got to the final round of Rank S with full health on all my monsters becuase my healer cast healing spells on them before they defeated the final monster of the second round. Then they all attack the metal bubble over and over again on the other team and don't go for the one monster that's hurting them. That's right, Morrie has one monster that really causes damage (the healslime either does like 12 damage or nothing at all when it's turn comes, and the metal bubble does like 40 damage) but they wasted hteir time on the metal bubble for over 10 turns and let the ONE FUCKING MONSTER on the other team that could hurt them go completely unchallenged and I lost. If they would have fought him first, and beat him, it wouldn't have mattered how long it took to finally take out the metal bubble, becuase NOTHING WOULD BE FUCKING HURTING MY TEAM.

Why the fuck can't I decide who they attack? If I could, this would be so fucking easy.
07 Dec 2005, 09:43 PM
Dyne

i really hope my ps2 comes tomorrow. im "creating" this game as i type this.
07 Dec 2005, 09:48 PM
Opaque

Upon further inspection FUCK RANK S unless you're over level 45 and you've beaten the game and you have Hev on your team.
07 Dec 2005, 09:59 PM
rama

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Originally Posted by Opaque

Why the fuck can't I decide who they attack? If I could, this would be so fucking easy.

that sucks...but you said it. it would be so fukking easy.
07 Dec 2005, 10:31 PM
Opaque

The award for worst voice acting ever goes to High Priest Rolo.

You'll understand when you meet him.
07 Dec 2005, 11:32 PM
DirtySouth

I just beat the game. Cool final battle, although a little drawn out, and nice long ending. My party is at level 44 at the end and gametime is exactly 72 hours. Just a heads up before you start the final battle:

Each character gets an item, and when the final battle starts, each character has to use the item 7 times before you can even damage him. All the characters must use the item in the same round for it to count, and you must do this 7 times (not consecutively). The game only vaguely mentions this, so I thought I'd mention it here. Basically you can't even hurt him for AT LEAST 7 rounds, so you'll have to endure his attacks. Fortunately during my battle he wasted a lot of his turns laughing, so it wasn't too bad.

As for the Rank S, the prize for winning is a Dragon Robe . While that's an excellent item (especially if you somehow manage to beat Rank S earlier in the game), by the time you'll have monsters powerful enough to take on Rank S, you'll have the ingredients to make a superior item through alchemy anyway.
07 Dec 2005, 11:35 PM
Opaque

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Originally Posted by DirtySouth

As for the Rank S, the prize for winning is a Dragon Robe . While that's an excellent item (especially if you somehow manage to beat Rank S earlier in the game), by the time you'll have monsters powerful enough to take on Rank S, you'll have the ingredients to make a superior item through alchemy anyway.

Yeah, but only one. It's better to give rank S's prize to Angelo and give the item you're talking about to Hero.
08 Dec 2005, 12:17 AM
DirtySouth

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Originally Posted by Opaque

Yeah, but only one. It's better to give rank S's prize to Angelo and give the item you're talking about to Hero.

You *can* make more, but it'll come down to personal choice. 2 of the ingredients, the Slime Crown and the liquid metal armor are renewable and can be aquired again. The Orichalcum (or however you spell it) is another matter. I've found 5 so far in my game. I'm not sure if those are renewable, but I severely doubt it. So, you can make more than one of these, IF you're willing to forgo the other equally valuable items you can make. Personally, I only made one myself. :)
08 Dec 2005, 01:32 AM
Opaque

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Originally Posted by DirtySouth

You *can* make more, but it'll come down to personal choice. 2 of the ingredients, the Slime Crown and the liquid metal armor are renewable and can be aquired again. The Orichalcum (or however you spell it) is another matter. I've found 5 so far in my game. I'm not sure if those are renewable, but I severely doubt it. So, you can make more than one of these, IF you're willing to forgo the other equally valuable items you can make. Personally, I only made one myself. :)

There are five, but it's really hard to get a third slime crown. Since I made a sheild, armor and two weapons with my orichalcum and the other ingredients I can't really make anything else.

Unless I get really lucky and a Slime King drops his crown.

Also, I don't think we need to use spoilers when having simple talks about alchemy. Just as long as we refrain from talking about where we get the ingredients when they aren't from everyday enemies.
08 Dec 2005, 03:28 AM
marwan

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Originally Posted by Kaneda

Your main hero learns a spell that will let you jump from town to dungeon instantly really early in the game, assuming you allocate his skill points to the non-weapon one (humanity? courage? can't remember...) He also learns a spell that will let you exit dungeons whenever you want.

"EVAC"(exit dungeon) and "ZOOM"(teleport to different locations) are some of the coolests spells, and they're dirt cheap :)

oh and i beat Dhoul' on the second try in the Dark Ruine.....i just reached "Rydon"

Opaque, i'm at "Rydon", how many more hours before the game ends? i have a total playtime 62 hours and my back is freakin' sore from playing this game(as i type this post). I mena im not bored of it, i love it, i just want to know how much longer to have to go till i reach the end.

I found "Hell Scythe".....but shit it's expansive....gotta opne up the casino and rack-up on gold asap.

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Originally Posted by Beefy Hits

Do any of you guys use cheese during the fights? I never know when to use it because I don't want to waste some good cheese.

Ever notice how the alchemy pot takes forever for the really good or the three-item mixes?

Another thing that irks me as I have been playing this game - since when did a monster that was called by another monster get a combat turn during the same round it got called? They never allowed that in the old DQs. When a monster got called by another monster, it had to wait till the next combat turn to attack. those blue bells in the snow area are cheap with their chain calls for help and their death song

i never understood the cheese thing.....what is it for?

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Originally Posted by Opaque

The award for worst voice acting ever goes to High Priest Rolo.

You'll understand when you meet him.

...and the best voice acting goes to "Morrie".....i just dig the way he talks and his personality! :D

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